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I get what you're saying, but let's not pretend the modern world isn't meaningfully different. Artificial light is a big factor, yes. So are odd and constantly changing work hours from a world that now operates 24/7. So is the common expectation of monophasic sleep in general. So is travel and jet lag that we now have to endure, and dietary changes, and stimulants especially for folks who just don't even have 8 uninterrupted hours available for sleep. So are dramatic global temperature changes. The list goes on, and there is more data in this paper https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11152632/

I can hardly blame anyone for wanting to "hack" or "optimize" their sleep. It seems more necessary now than it has ever been.

Good heavens, the comments on that article make me want to vomit:

"Thanks to people with your mindset our streets and borders are not as safe as they should be."

This option is made freely available to passengers, but by choosing it you're signaling that you hate your country and public safety? It's no wonder people are scared to push back on invasive and discriminatory practices.

I built a browser extension for a hackathon that enabled crypto payments direct to site owners. "registration" was just sticking a formatted payment address in a DNS TXT record, and if you were at a supported website, the extension would light up, and facilitated payment.

I still think it's a neat idea but I can't be bothered to build a real version

Yes, I have an 8 year old pair of boots that have been through all sorts of conditions, all over the world. And I don't even do anything to maintain them. You can get very good boots for $200.

My association was a bit later, mid to late 2010s. I recognize some of the names as well, including one of the top folks that probably onboarded both of us.

That said, my info is not on the list, I assume it was deleted when I left.

"This aeron offered through a liquidation sale by a company that once resold furniture from defunct dot-com startups, but is now itself going bankrupt"

My old gym teacher also taught science because we just couldn't find another teacher, and was genuinely surprised to learn there were forms of matter smaller than atoms.

My health teacher was a "permanent substitute" situation where we just watched movies the whole semester and got A's.

One of my math teachers died and we just...never hired a replacement, so nobody learned anything that semester.

Bonus: my driver's education teacher was arrested for a DUI (but not terminated)

These situations were all in different schools in different US states, so the lack of quality control in admin that you describe definitely resonates.

This is pretty much Van Inwagen's argument in Material Beings -- recommended if you haven't read it!

Copied from wiki:

"Every composite material object is made up of elementary particles, and the only such composite objects are living organisms. A consequence of this view is that everyday objects such as tables, chairs, cars, buildings, and clouds do not exist. While there seem to be such things, this is only because there are elementary particles arranged in specific ways. For example, where it seems that there is a chair, Van Inwagen says that there are only elementary particles arranged chairwise."

I was able to find a similar public domain image in all of 5 seconds, so neither faster nor cheaper in this case.

In fact, it's not hard to imagine people using AI tools even if they're slower, more expensive, and yield worse quality results in the long run.

"When all you have is a hammer...".

There's this FinTech ad on the NYC subway right now. I can't remember the company, but the entire ad is just a picture of a guitar and some text.

Anyway, the guitar is AI generated, and it's really bad. There are 5 strings, which morph into 6 at the headstock. There's a trem bar jammed under the pickguard, somehow. There's a randomly placed blob on the guitar that is supposed to be a knob/button, but clearly is not. The pickups are visually distorted.

It's repulsive. You're trying to sell me on something, why would you put so little effort into your advertising? Why would you not just...take a picture of a real guitar? I so badly want to cover it up.

> I am also concerned about the fact that a junior dev is being asked to rewrite

If OP is basically soloing a rewrite of an 11 year old company, they seriously need to consider asking for a new title

In the US, between 15% - 30% according to https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1484557/

I would guess this number is higher today

For the curious, it would be something like "makku-fu-ruri"

This was my experience in Japan as well. So many words we're used to saying in English use mouth shapes that the Japanese language does not, so you really have to tweak how you say things to align with what's available.

"Coffee" is a fun one for the tired westerner

I often can't even find someone with a key to open the cabinets. At my CVS there's usually just a security guard, who can't open the cabinets. If you need detergent, beer, shampoo, razors, or pretty much anything else you're out of luck.

Lack of availability isn't even my main concern though. In this environment, everyone needs to order everything online. So instead of one truck making a shipment to CVS (I'm oversimplifying), now you have additional delivery vans and ebikes making door to door shipments, each with extra packaging.

edit to clarify my stance in the context of the GP: I strongly dislike ordering things online when there is (or should be) a local alternative, and only use delivery services as a last resort

I learned how to drive stick on an NSX.

I also wedged my skateboard in the back window when it was open, causing it to completely shatter when the owner tried to close it. Didn't appreciate what a bone-headed move that was at the time, but you've enlightened me.

You're using one right now

I don't do much recreational coding now, but there are a couple of recent examples:

- I needed to submit something on a website that had a completely broken frontend (like, scripts were busted). Found an old version on the wayback machine that worked and, fortunately, there were no compatibility issues. This is pretty basic, but I could have set up overrides in dev tools to restore a working version of the "original" site.

- Needed to make a hotel reservation, but the online form was broken (NaN for all number inputs, probably broken validator). Was able to guess the expected format and manually issue these requests, which worked.

I often think about technical literacy. Programmers are in this bubble where we think "oh, I'll just use grep and regex" and we can solve all sorts of problems. But 99% of people don't even know what those things are, much less have the foundation necessary to use these tools effectively. This sucks, because technical literacy does not seem to be growing at a rate that matches our societal dependence on these systems.

They may have changed it / it varies by location, but when I worked there it was just heavy cream and a canister of compressed air.

While this is a shame, there was neither good content nor engagement. I mean, when you run a search for "DesignerNews", the first sub-result is "DesignerNews is almost dead", which seemed to always be true.

I do have a Google/Alexa/something app published that reads the top stories from DesignerNews, which will definitely break, so I'll have to dig around and take it offline.

Are there any alternatives?

The ecosystem sounds no less insane with this answer. I run into "<X> is deprecated, use <Y>" constantly at a dependency level, at a framework level, and at a paradigm level.

Also, what's Vite? The React docs mention Next.js, Remix, or Gatsby. At what point would any of these become deprecated?

To be clear, I'm just complaining, but you could change the OP's question to read as "How in the world can this number of <dependencies/frameworks/paradigms/languages> be considered sane and normal, and most of all, necessary?" and it would still make sense

Probably because these colleges have 5,000 Maries to choose from. The article says Marie is perfect on paper and "checks all the boxes", but that's honestly not very inspiring and I'd guess that applicants/parents are optimizing for the wrong things.

> “She’s happy but often says, ‘Mom, I just wish I hadn’t studied. I would have gotten into the exact same schools.’” And Marie is probably right. Admissions scarcity is concentrated at the top of the rankings list; there are hundreds of four-year colleges that readily admit B and C students.

My experience is that they actually would have gotten into more / better schools

There's a fighting game (I think a port of Street Fighter II) in this style and it's just wild how they make the static screen elements work with that type of game.

Housing type and housing location have a large impact on energy usage. 1000 homes outside of a city requires 1000 cars, and the structure itself will likely not nearly be as energy efficient as a single unit in a larger building.

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2014-03/documents/lo...

Years ago, I submitted an admittedly half-baked version of this to YC. The concept is interesting, but the implementation options are:

a) require considerable and routine manual data entry from the end-user

b) suck up every bit of data from e.g. email, phone, messaging apps, banks and end up with some privacy/security disaster

Anyway, there are all sorts of things you could do with that data, like trawling for novel links in your social graph.

Last year's thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125628

(I predict csomar will create another one in a couple of weeks ;))

I also predict most of the low effort, ChatGPT-based businesses will shutter, and companies will sunset ChatGPT-based features because they're not worth maintaining. There will be no major disruption/breakthrough in the technology, the hype will continue to cool as the average person moves on to the next thing. The market will continue to suck, but not because AI is taking our jobs.

Taco Bell: Tasty Temple Challenge

It's a DOOM knockoff. The enemies are snakes and scorpions, and your weapons are...Taco Bell sauce packets.

I've just been using an Eames lounge chair for years and it's quite comfortable. At least, I'm slightly reclined rather than constantly hunched over, which is probably the lesser evil.

Not a good choice if you have a heavy reliance on peripherals though.

Other than reader mode, you can try disabling javascript. Lynx will get you plain text, but usability will vary from site to site.

If you truly want a screenshot, you can write a program to spin up a headless browser / selenium, load the page, and save the result somewhere. People do this all the time as part of UI and integration tests and tooling is decent enough.

I'm not sure of a legitimate record, but searching for "Bristol Basin" suggests that it was supplies/weapons to assist with the German attacks on Bristol, England.

Edit to include text from the plaque commemorating the basin: BENEATH THIS EAST RIVER DRIVE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK LIE STONES, BRICKS AND RUBBLE FROM THE BOMBED CITY OF BRISTOL IN ENGLAND... BROUGHT HERE IN BALLAST FROM OVERSEAS, THESE FRAGMENTS THAT WERE ONCE HOMES SHALL TESTIFY WHILE MEN LOVE FREEDOM TO THE RESOLUTION AND FORTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN. THE SAW THEIR HOME STRUCK DOWN WITHOUT WARNING.... IT WAS NOT THEIR WALLS BUT THEIR VALOR THAT KEPT THEM FREE ......

And broad-based under all Is planted England's oaken-hearted mood, As rich in fortitude As e'er went worldward from the island-wall.

ERECTED BY THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION OF THE UNITED STATES * 1942 *

What soured my opinion was everyone and their dog trying to explain to me how they were going to get rich with bitcoin and NFTs.

And this was when I was actively employed developing crypto finance instruments! Like, I have warned people not to buy the thing I have built because they did not understand it.

It is/was a great playground for modeling different instruments imo, but people don't want to treat it like the back alley casino it is.